Difference Between Posting Key and Field Status Group

What is the difference among Account group, Posting key and Field status group in terms field status?

Account group (in GL accounting)defines:

a. no. ranges of the gl account numbers
b. field status of the GL account master data in the company code segment.(which fields to appear when you create a gl account) (to control…double click on your GL account group in Screen transaction code OBD4)

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Business Area Vs. Profit Center Vs. Profitability Segment

What is the difference between Business Area, Profit center & Profitability Segment?

Business area is an organisational unit which corresponds to the specific business segment or area of responsibility. Identification of business area helps in segment reporting of a company in its financial statements. Business areas can be identified based on the products of the company or based on geographical area.

Profit centers are internal areas of a company that have the responsibility for achieving target profits or productivity goals.

The objective of business area is more for reporting purposes whereas profit center allows to analyse areas of responsibility and to delegate responsibility to decentralised units (eg., the various divisions within a company). Thus, profit center are basically treated as “companies within a company” and ensures effective control.

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Condition Types

Condition Types:

>    The condition type determines the category of a condition and how it is used.
>    The calculation type and the scale base type can be controlled for each condition type.
For Example: Scale for Condition Type PROO

 

1Pieces800Unit
10Pieces750Unit
100Pieces700Unit

>    Possible scale base types       Possible calculation types
Value                            Percentage from an initial value  Fixed amount
Quantity                        Amount per unit of measure
Weight                          Amount per unit of weight
Volumes                        Amount per unit of volume
Time period                   Quantity per unit of time

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ABAP Training Set 8: Smartforms, ABAP Objects

Smartforms,Abap Objects,Overview of Unicode

Contents:

Chapter 01 Introduction to SmartForms
Chapter 02 Global Settings
Chapter 03 Pages & Windows
Chapter 04 Basic Nodes
Chapter 05 Auxiliary Nodes
Chapter 06 Debugging SmartForm & User Defined Exceptions

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ABAP Training Set 5: Data Interface

Data Interface

Contents

Chapter 01 Background Processing
Chapter 02 Application Server Files
Chapter 03  Presentation Server Files
Chapter 04 Batch Input Methods
Chapter 05  Batch Input Session
Chapter 06  Processing Batch Input Sessions
Chapter 07  Call Transaction Method
Chapter 08  Batch Input Recorder

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